Synonyms for hassle
ˈhæs əlhas·sle

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1. fuss, trouble, bother, hasslenoun

   an angry disturbance

   "he didn't want to make a fuss"; "they had labor trouble"; "a spot of bother"

   Synonyms:
   pain in the ass, problem, squabble, dither, pettifoggery, hustle, botheration, flap, bicker, tiff, difficulty, stir, flurry, dogfight, rough-and-tumble, bother, ado, infliction, tizzy, pain, bustle, pother, trouble, spat, fuss, annoyance, worry, scuffle, bickering, pain in the neck, tussle

2. hassle, scuffle, tussle, dogfight, rough-and-tumbleverb

   disorderly fighting

   Synonyms:
   scramble, dogfight, fuss, trouble, scuffle hoe, rough-and-tumble, bother, scuffle, tussle

3. harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provokeverb

   annoy continually or chronically

   "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"

   Synonyms:
   stimulate, harry, kick up, beset, provoke, set upon, chevy, chivy, kindle, harass, arouse, enkindle, evoke, call forth, molest, elicit, incrust, encrust, chivvy, ravage, chevvy, plague, blight, fire, raise

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1. List of paraphrases for "hassle":

   tease, inconvenience, harass

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Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

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How to use hassle in a sentence?

1. Lars Vilks:

   Everything becomes very limited. It's a hassle if you get seen because then you have to move straight away.

2. Kevin Wolf:

   Even though it's not an embargo, because of the hassle sometimes suppliers will treat it as an embargo. It has a practical effect that's greater than the legal effect.

3. Whoopi Goldberg:

   Here is the bottom line, people are not putting up with it. Countries are not putting up with it, because it means that every time you sneeze or talk, you are spreading more hassle for them. They’re trying to clean their country up. They’re trying to put everybody in a mask and here you come, and you think tennis needs you that badly? No, honey, no.

4. Raghuram Rajan:

   We are willing to work to try and solve the problem, in fact we have some solutions which are coming up on doing low value transactions without too much 'jhanjhat' (hassle) as they call it, but the point is you cannot violate regulations.

5. Zhou Ye:

   It has made going Dutch less hassle and so much more fun, young people think splitting bills this way is fun, and older ones may find it fashionable to do so.